An American Airlines flight from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, experienced a terrifying... The ...

Authorities say bird strike involving an American Airlines jetliner disabled one of the plane’s two engines shortly after ...

American Airlines passengers feared for their lives Thursday when a bird flew into the engine of their outbound LaGuardia flight — forcing the plane to quickly make an emergency touchdown at the ...

The pilot declared an emergency just nine minutes later, at 7:52 p.m., and diverted to JFK. The two airports are approximately 10 miles apart in the borough of Queens. LaGuardia Airport in New ...

An emergency landing terrified passengers on an American Airlines flight after a bird flew into the engine of the plane.

Thursday’s bird strike was similar to the one that caused a US Airways jet that hit a flock of birds on Jan. 15, 2009, to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River, the AP reported.

“Mayday mayday mayday American 1722 engine failure,” the pilot of the Charlotte, North Carolina-bound aircraft radioed to the control tower during Thursday's emergency, according to a ...

Rarely do they cause so much damage that commercial jetliners are forced to make emergency landings ... The aircraft landed safely at JFK where it will be inspected by our maintenance team ...